ABSTRACT
Most decisions on admissions are made on the basis of grades in high school. The grades are added up into one major figure. Some additional points may be included for various types of work experience. A conscientious and highly efficient secretary prepares it all and ranks the applicants. One reason why justice takes so long is that the courts are overburdened with work and poorly equipped to cope with it. In a decision the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the constitutionality of the Sentencing Commission against several challenges, so by the Commission claims to be the determining factor at the Federal level with regard to penal law in the USA. The goal is to prevent inequality, but the social consequences are that other important values are squeezed out of the system of decision. A political decision to eliminate concern for the social background of the defendant involves much more than making the characteristics inappropriate for decisions on pain.
